Q.What is Dichroic Glass and what it does mean? A. The short answer: Dichroic, simply, means having 2 or more colors. The
main characteristic of Dichroic Glass is that it has a transmitting
color and a reflective color. When light passes through the glass it
transmits one color and has a completely different reflective color.
Furthermore, these two colors shift depending on the angle of view. A. The technical answer: Dichroic Glass was originally created for the Aerospace industry for their Satellite mirrors. It's
a specially coated glass that is placed in a heated and airless vacuum
chamber. Then the surface of the glass is blasted with an electron beam
gun, Metal Oxides are vaporised onto the surface of the glass which
coats the glass to create different color effects. It has many
technical uses including: Lighting, Fiber Optics, Infrared Lasers,
Motion Picture Equipment, Sun Glasses, and more. The quality Dichroic
surface is stronger than the glass that it has been placed onto, and it
does not fade over time.
